The dentist wore a gunWyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are joined together in American frontier mythology as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are in baseball. Earp, a peace officer in the toughest cattle and mining towns of the Old West, is the one modern movie audiences most easily identify with, whether played by Burt Lancaster, Kurt Russell or Kevin Costner.

Only connectAfter 40 years of novels like “The Accidental Tourist,” “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Breathing Lessons,” Anne Tyler should be named official field biologist of the American middle-class family.

JUST FOR KIDSA surprising narrator guides you through a land of 'punctured hearts'In an interview with Publishers Weekly in February, Markus Zusak, 30, a first-generation Australian of German descent, said he hoped young adult readers would appreciate his new book for its toehold into new territory. “Whether it worked or not, you just want people to see the attempt,” he said.

Chapter one, page one1882. Mar. 19. Before first light comes the honk of geese above, but we are not misled to believe they portend an early thaw. While the winds warm somewhat, the river stands solid. Hay is adequate still, though lacking some quality, in that it is the last cutting.

ECCENTRIC ORBITSNovelists rush in where angels fear...What if there were a war in heaven and nobody came? Some of the supernaturals, the Unkin, have fought and no longer wish to; some of them are willing to fight forever, or until their faction wins.

Blood workIf you're a fan of the Quarrymen, John Lennon's 1950s skiffle group; Donna Karan's design school projects; or seconds from the Godiva chocolate factory, your book has arrived.